10/07/2010

No Blog yesterday:
Folks, I was unable to get a blog posted yesterday. It was our bowling day and I was tied up with a bunch of things that needed my immediate attention with our building project yesterday morning. Gary
 
 
 
Surprise Visitor at the Aime Casavant home:
Fern Pladson Beaver (67): Devils Lake, ND
Message from Aime Casavant (66): Jamestown, ND
Aime & Fern, it’s these kind of encounters that make these daily blogs so interesting. Most of our readers know both the Casavant and Pladson Families. That’s what makes it so neat. Aime, Fern’s brother Keith, was in your class too. Gary
Gary,

This is an account of one of those experiences in life – that can come
only from former classmates.

One friday, this lady knocked on my door – I was the only one home.
She introduced herself, that she was Fern Beaver and she had come to
pick up some children from bible summer camp that my wife Brenda was
bringing to our house. I invited the lady in – she was very friendly
and pleasant. We sat at the counter in our house and visited for
about 20 minutes – my wife was late. Then the lady said “You don’t
know who I’am, do you? I know you, your Aime Casavant.

I said, uh, well, uh, (embarassing), not really, I’m not sure who you
are. She said I went to Dunseith High School with you. Totally
surprised I said – really! She said yes, I was a grade below you.
All this time we had been visiting and she knew exactly who I was and
I did not know her. She kept smiling. I said, “well, I can just
remember one girl with the name of Fern and it was Fern Pladson. ”
She said “yes – thats me.” But my name is now Fern Beaver. We had a
good visit.

Several years ago, I went to a stage theatre production in Devils
Lake, driving a charter bus there. The musical was “My Fair Lady.”
The production was outstanding, the actors and singers just great.
There is a little old grandma in the musical. I looked at the list of
cast and there in the list was Fern Beaver playing the part of the
grandma. She was fantastic ! The show was as good as anything I
have seen on Broadway in NY. After the show the actors stand in
line. I walked through the line, met Fern once again and gave her a
big hug. This was just an interesting encounter I wanted to share.

 
 
 
 
Message from DeAnn Gottbreht O’Hara: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/deanngottbreht
 

Hello again! The last month or so has been really busy preparing for Patrick and I’s wedding this weekend. I am so glad the day is finally almost here! I am also looking forward to spending time with all of our family and friends coming to share this special day with us. Our wedding will be at 5pm at the Metigoshe Ministries Lakeside Christian Center up at Lake Metigoshe.

I had another hormone treatment this last Monday. The treatment 3 weeks before had my feeling pretty lousy the next day so I am back on steroids before each treatment to help fight the side effects of the treatments. Unfortunately steroids have their own side effects but I felt a little better after this last treatment so I guess it’s worth it. The steroids cause my face to get really red, cause trouble sleeping, increased weight gain and so on. Other than that I am doing pretty well. My hair is really coming back now, and of course it appears to be as curly as before! I look in the mirror some days and wonder who this person with such short hair is looking back at me but I suppose I will get used to it over time. Life in the last year sure has brought many changes! Also my energy is improving a little but I’m sure it will be awhile yet before I feel somewhat back to normal again.

Connor is doing great! He was at the doctor this last week for shots and is now up to 16 lbs! That of course is a little on the small side for a 7 month old but he is growing and changing everyday. He loves to lay on the floor and play now and manages to roll himself all over the room when he wants to. I look up from doing something and say Hey how did you get way over there! He just looks at me with his wonderful smile. He is always such a happy boy! He is also starting to enjoy eating baby food. Last night he enjoyed some sweet potatoes and unfortunately managed to get them all over his face and a little on his shirt and pants as well! He thinks he needs to help me put the spoon in his mouth which always leads to a mess!

I hope you all have a great week! I know it will certainly be a wonderful one for my family and I. Take care.

Love DeAnn

DeAnn, Congratulations to you and Patrick with you wedding this week-end. I Know your Aunt Evie is already there and I believe your Aunt Sharron will be arriving as well. You must be special for them to travel such long distances. We’d love to see pictures too. Gary
 
 
 
 
Unknow Pictures
Reply from Dick Johnson(68): Dunseith, ND
 
Gary,

The pictures posted by Ele of two young boys sure look like they could be relatives of the Hiatts. I wonder if they could be Lois Hiatt Fugere’s boys? Being that they were found in the attic of Cam and Sherri Millang’s house, they could most likely have been placed there when Freddie Hiatt’s family lived there. They appear to be wearing shirts from that time period too—mid ’60s. If I look at the top picture, I can see the resemblance to Lois—if only in my mind. To my knowledge, after Bennie Johnson lived in the house only the Freddie Hiatt family lived there until Charles Hagen bought the place. I doubt that he would have put these pictures in the attic. I spent several days and nights in the house with the Slyter boys and we were in every inch of the house. After Charlie Hagen bought the place, he cleaned out the attics and called my mom and asked her if she wanted some old boxes that were in the attic. If not, he was going to throw them out. She went over and got a large wooden box with a lid and a round crate of some kind. The wooden box was full of Grandma Johnson’s old newspapers and some other papers from the old days. We have the wooden box upstairs in our house and it is now used as a stand for an antique radio and lamp. It has homemade leather straps for hinges and is a keepsake for me. Gary if you could post Lois’s picture with the one of the top boy, you can see the resemblance.I could be wrong too. Thanks!

Dick

Dick, I just talked to Delmer Fugere del3290@comcast.net, Lois and Orelle’s son. He has been following the Blog and he said these two boys are not he and his brother Dana. I can sure see the resemblance. I will post Lois’ pictures though. It’s time for another posting of the Walter Hiatt family too. Lois has been gone nearly two years now. Maybe these two guys belong to some of the other Hiatt’s? The number two boy looks like a Salmonson to me?
 
Delmer, please forgive me for not checking my records to see if you are on our distribution before I called you. It was nice chatting with you.
Note: I would have still called you even if I had checked my records first. Gary
Unknown Boy #1

 

 

 

Unknown boy #2

 

 

 

Lois Hiatt Fugere(56)

Diseased Nov. 08

 

 

Walter & Julia Hiatt Family:

Back Row: Freddie, Delores, Eldon

Front Row: Bernard, Julia, Lois, Walter, Wallice

 

 

 

Cheerleaders 55-56: Lois Hiatt, Janice Leonard,

Mickey Haagenson & Bonnie Awalt